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#### ZEISS.DLL 1.67n adds support for multiple probe changers with different settings (types)

Zeiss CMMs can have more than one probe changer installed. For CMM with dual RDS and XXT probe head, they will be completely different. One set of settings is the registry is not sufficient. A new section [ToolChangers] has been added to the configuration file to address this problem. Each probe changer is introduced by name in curly brackets; the order of tool changers has to be the same as the order in PC-DMIS dialogs (Edit->Preferences->Probe changer). When there is not any [ToolChangers] section in the configuration file, registry settings are used (it provides backward compatibility). The name of probe changer in curly brackets can be set arbitrarily. It is only a comment.

Example of 2 probe changer definition:

[ToolChangers]

{TC RDS 1st}

;TCDepthClearance

;TCVerticalClearance

;TCLengthClearance

;TCVerticalStroke

;TCCalibrationToolDepth

;TCUsingCalibrationTool

;TCIgnoreMountPointMove

TCLengthInFrontOfSlot=90

TCVerticalDropToRealDropoff=66

TCLengthBackOutOfSlot=20

TCProbeBalanceDelay=10

{TC VAST 2nd}

;TCDepthClearance

;TCVerticalClearance

;TCLengthClearance

;TCVerticalStroke

;TCCalibrationToolDepth

;TCUsingCalibrationTool

;TCIgnoreMountPointMove

;TCLengthInFrontOfSlot=93

;TCVerticalDropToRealDropoff

;TCLengthBackOutOfSlot

;TCProbeBalanceDelay

The ZeissConfigurationTool can be used to write out current configuration settings from the registry and write out defaults settings from interface Zeiss.dll.

Example:

$ ZeissConfigurationTool.exe –R

Zeiss interface version 1.85n adds three new options for VAST/MT probe changer:

- VASTUseDirectTaration (default FALSE, if TRUE sequence M04, M04Y).

- VASTNewProbeBalancing - Controls the command after pickup during probe balancing (if TRUE M14, if FALSE M13, M07).

- VASTRepulseAtPickup - Sets M11 (repulse) instead of M10 (attract) before pickup.